PRI

Senior Application Architect (Modernization & Delivery Enablement)

Georgia · Senior

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About the role

Join Our Team In 2025, USA Today recognized Primerica as a Top Workplace USA for the fifth year in a row, and Newsweek named Primerica one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity for the second consecutive year.
In 2024, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution named Primerica as a Top Workplace for the eleventh consecutive year, and Forbes recognized Primerica as one of America's Best Employers for Women for the fifth year in a row.
In addition, for the tenth time Primerica has been voted a Best Employer by Gwinnett Magazine.

Evaluate modernization options (refactor, replatform, rehost, replace, retire) and document decision rationale.
Develop end‑to‑end target-state architecture blueprints covering application layers, integration flows, data movement, security zones, and operational models.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with enterprise modernization standards, cloud strategy, and long-term platform evolution.
Create and maintain architecture artifacts such as logical/physical diagrams, sequence diagrams, deployment diagrams, and service interaction maps.
Partner closely with engineers and product owners during backlog refinement, sprint planning, and development cycles to ensure alignment with architectural direction.
Support troubleshooting during testing cycles (functional, performance, integration) and guide teams through complex technical decision-making.
Translate business and technical requirements into solution designs, covering data schemas, integration contracts, workflow sequencing, and API specifications.
Validate that engineering implementations follow design patterns, security requirements, performance expectations, and reliability objectives.
Ensure consistency in API and event design across teams through reusable patterns, governance reviews, and automated quality checks.
Champion architecture standards and best practices; lead design reviews, prevent architectural drift, and provide guidance on design patterns, performance, resiliency, and maintainability.

Type of Experience Required
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Deep knowledge of modern architecture patterns including:
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, and automation.
Experience designing for reliability: monitoring, observability, resilience, and performance.

Master's degree or Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience in Computer Science and Information Systems
Must have at least 3- 4 years being a Lead Application Architect on multiple large-scale modernization initiatives.
Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment and sometimes competing priorities environment.
Experience designing complex concurrent applications requiring broad mix of technologies in the application architecture.
Ability to make sound decisions with minimum information provided.
10+ years of experience in software engineering and application architecture.
Proven experience designing and modernizing enterprise-grade applications at scale.
Microservices and modular monoliths

Equal Opportunity Employer.
At Primerica, we believe that diversity and inclusion are critical to our future and our mission - creating a foundation for a creative workplace that leads to innovation, growth, and profitability.

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